Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley was born in Monroe, Michigan, United States on February 2nd, 1954 and is the Model. At the age of 70, Christie Brinkley biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Christie Brinkley (born Christie Lee Hudson; February 2, 1954) is an American model, actress and entrepreneur.
Brinkley gained worldwide fame with her appearances in the late 1970s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues, ultimately appearing on an unprecedented three consecutive covers starting in 1979.
She spent twenty-five years as the face of CoverGirl, has appeared on over 500 magazine covers, and has signed contracts with major brands—both fashion and non-fashion. Brinkley went on to work as an actress, illustrator, television personality, photographer, writer, designer, and activist for human and animal rights and the environment. Brinkley has been married four times, most notably between 1985 and 1994 to musician Billy Joel, several of whose music videos she appeared in.
Her fourth marriage, to architect Peter Cook, ended in a much-publicized 2008 divorce. With a career spanning more than three decades, magazines such as Allure and Men's Health have named Brinkley one of the most attractive women of all time.
Early life
Brinkley was born Christie Lee Hudson in Monroe, Michigan on February 2, 1954, the daughter of Marjorie (née Bowling) and Herbert Hudson. Her family moved to Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, where her mother Marjorie later met and married television writer Donald Brinkley in Bel Air, Los Angeles. Donald adopted Christie and her brother Greg Brinkley. During this time, the family lived in Malibu and then the Brentwood neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Brinkley was educated at Paul Revere Junior High School and attended Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles from 9th to 12th grade. After graduation in 1972, she moved to Paris to study art.
Personal life
In 1982, Brinkley had a romantic relationship with Olivier Chandon de Brailles, heir to the Moët-Chandon Champagne fortune. The two met at Studio 54 in New York City at a party promoting a calendar in which Brinkley appeared. Chandon died a year later in a crash at a private pre-season practice session car race.
In September 2015, it was widely reported that John Mellencamp was in a new relationship with Brinkley. In August 2016, the couple announced their separation after almost a year of dating.
In 1994, Brinkley survived a helicopter crash that occurred during a ski trip in Telluride, Colorado. As a result, Brinkley suffered years of hip pain, culminating in a full hip replacement in 2021.
Brinkley lives on Long Island in Sag Harbor, New York; she previously lived in Bridgehampton and Amagansett, Long Island. She and her children are fans of the New York Islanders ice hockey team. Brinkley began doing promotions for the team after being noticed at games. In 2007, she showed her support by writing a blog for NHL.com and filming a commercial. Brinkley helped found a club for cutting, an equestrian sport in which a rider has two and one half minutes to cut as many cattle from a herd as they can.
Since 1998, Brinkley has given nearly $1,000,000 to organizations and candidates of the Democratic Party of the United States, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, America Coming Together and Moveon.org. In the New York delegation, Brinkley served as a delegate on the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. She has also been involved in anti-nuclear activities and campaigned against the restarting of the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Brinkley supports animal rights, most notably through the organization PETA, having previously spoken out against the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. She became a vegetarian when she was 13 years old and then got her entire family to become vegetarians.
Career
Errol Sawyer, an American photographer, found Brinkley in a Paris post office in 1973. He took her first modeling photos and introduced her to Elite Model Management's John Casablancas of Paris. "I was really a surfer girl from California," Brinkley said later. I never appeared to be a model." After being introduced to Elite, where Brinkley's Patrick Demarchelier and Mike Reinhardt told her about Brinkley, she returned to California, and by the time of a lunch meeting with Nina Blanchard (Eileen Ford affiliate in Los Angeles) she had been booked for three national ad campaigns.
Multiple shows on the front of Glamour followed soon, as well as a landmark 25-year deal with cosmetics company CoverGirl, one of the longest modeling contracts in history. CoverGirl's 2005-born covergirl purchased Brinkley, advertising her in magazines and television commercials for mature skin care.
Brinkley appeared on three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers (1979, 1980, and 1981) for the first time, and he appeared in the publication's annual swimsuit and television specials for years to come. Brinkley was exclusive to the first Sports Illustrated Calendar and she has also released two of her own calendars. In 2005, Brinkley was included in the special Sports Illustrated 40th Anniversary Issue's Hall of Fame, honoring the magazine's most coveted figures as well as others in the 50th Anniversary of Legends.
Brinkley has appeared on more than 500 magazine covers, including US, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and the best-selling issue of Life. Chanel No. 5 has had significant relationships with her. 19, Prell, MasterCard, Breck, Diet Coke, Anheuser-Busch, Got Milk, Healthy Choice, Max Factor, Nissan, Noxema, Revlon, Clairol, Borghese Cosmetics, Borghese Cosmetics, Nu Skin, Brinkle, Nu Skin, Yardley, Halston, Prell, Vogue Patterns, Gottex, and Black Velvet are among others. In more than 30 countries, Brinkley has been photographed on six continents.
Brinkley was born in 1989, along with Cheryl Tiegs and Beverly Johnson, one of Matchbox Toys' matching dolls titled The Real Model Collection.
Brinkley appeared in the 1983 film National Lampoon's Vacation as "The girl in the red Ferrari" opposite Chevy Chase. She reprised her role in the 1997 sequel Vegas Vacation; later spoofed it in a 2008 DirecTV commercial; and then spoof In a 2015 Infiniti commercial as the wife in the Infiniti (the blonde in the convertible; and in the ABC series The Goldbergs in 2019. In 2011, she appeared in the documentary King of the Hamptons, directed by filmmaker Dennis Michael Lynch. At the 2010 Hamptons International Film Festival, the film premiered.
This appearance by Brinkley on NBC's Mad About You was the highest rated half-hour episode since the Cosby Show's conclusion. Celebrity Weddings InStyle, the highest rated special in Lifetime's history, was hosted by her. Brinkley appeared on the Today Show in 1983 as a beauty tips and, in 1992, she launched her own television show Living in the 90s, alongside Christie Brinkley.
"Brinkley Mayhem," "All About Soul," "A Matter of Faith," "A Matter of Trust," "Reality in Mind," "Working My Love," "A Matter of Faith," "Securities," "All about Soul," "All About Life," "A Matter of Trust," "A Matter of Faith," "All About Faith," "British Army"), and "Just Wanna Hold" are among Beau Billy Joel's television specials and music videos for beau Billy Joel
On NBC's Parks and Recreation, she appeared on NBC's Parks and Recreation as Gayle Gergich, Jerry Gergich's wife.
During the show, Brinkley co-hosted Anderson Live and also danced with Dancing With the Stars alumnus Gilles Marini.
Roxie Hart's debut in the long-running musical Chicago on April 8, 2011. She completed a one-month stint in the London's production at Cambridge Theatre in August and reprised the role on Broadway and continued with 182 total performances with the National Touring Company of Chicago in cities including Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, and Hartford. In April 2019, Brinkley reprised the Roxie Hart role in Chicago at The Venetian Theatre in The Venetian Las Vegas.
By Deadline, Brinkley will appear in a guest role on ABC's season 7 premiere, as Aleah Welsh.
In August 2019, Brinkley was announced as one of the celebrities to compete on Dancing with the Stars' 28th season. However, she suffered wrist and arm pains that necessitated emergency surgery right before the premiere. Sailor Sailor, her daughter's daughter, also stepped in for the season.
In 2022, Brinkley was named "Lemur" of Team Cuddley in season seven of The Masked Singer.
Since 1997, Brinkley has appeared in a long line of cable TV infomercials supporting Total Gym home fitness products, including Chuck Norris. With Xbox 360 at the Boy's and Girl's Club, Brinkley and Dr. Carlon Colker promoted National Family Fitness Day in 2008.
Brinkley is a theatre company that specializes in hair extensions, Hair2Wear, a line of hair extensions, Bellissima Prosecco, an organic sparkling wine brand, and Christie Brinkley Eyewear, an eyeglasses eyewear brand.
Her financial interests in 2019 were worth an estimated US$80 million, primarily as the owner of real estate in the Hamptons.
Christie Brinkley's Outdoor Beauty and Fitness Book, which topped the New York Times bestseller list in 1983, illustrated and illustrated a book on health and beauty.
Billy Joel's 1993 triple platinum album River of Dreams illustrated the back art for his Billy Joel's 1993 triple platinum album River of Dreams. Rolling Stone named her as the year's best album cover.
Brinkley has created clothing designs for Simplicity Pattern and has contributed to the creation of brand Nouveau Eyewear, her line of prescription glasses, and sunglasses, as well as international exports. Believe, her own personal scent launched in spring 1998, became her own. Swank's jewelry collection is available.
Awards and achievements
- Top Picks, in 1993 by Rolling Stone for the artistic work Brinkley did on the cover of Billy Joel's album River of Dreams.
- 2001 Merit Award, given by USO-The United Service Organizations Inc. Brinkley traveled with the USO on goodwill missions to Sarajevo, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Italy entertaining the peacekeeping forces and visiting aircraft carriers and refugee camps. After participating in Secretary of Defense William Cohen's Christmas tour to Kosovo, she was given the award in Washington DC for her efforts on behalf of American troops.
- Spirit of Achievement Award, at 2003 by "The Women's Division" of Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University presented Brinkley for her charity work.
- Christie Brinkley Scholarship, at February 2007 by The Ross School in East Hampton, Long Island, New York. This scholarship allow students interested in art or environment sciences get four free years at Ross High School.
- Heart Award, special honor from the American Heart Association in the "12th Annual Heart of the Hamptons Gala" for her commitment to helping children live healthier lives. Brinkley said she was very honored to receive the award from the AHA being convinced that the research from the organization made it possible for her mother to be alive after suffering five strokes.
- Humanitarian Award, given by March of Dimes. This organization is dedicated to improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality through research, community services, education and advocacy.
- Merit Award, by the non-profit USA national organization Mothers Voices which mission is strengthens family communication about sex, sexual health and HIV/AIDS/STD prevention through education and awareness, mobilize parents and caregivers to become their child's frontline sexual health educator.
- Mother of the Year, given by The National Mothers Day committee at a ceremony held in New York City.
- Merit Award, given by Make-A-Wish Foundation in New York. They work granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy.
- America's Mothers and Shakers, named by Redbook Magazine for her involvement in "STAR — Standing for Truth About Radiation".
- HBA's Positively Beautiful Award, named by HBA Global Expo on behalf of her work with the international charity Smile Train.
- Mothers Who Make A Difference Award, given by Love Our Children USA on the 2011 Sixth Annual edition, recognizing and supporting four celebrity moms for balancing motherhood, work and causes.
- Broadway Beacon Award for her portrayal of Roxie Hart in the hit musical Chicago (June 4, 2012).
- Honor by the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center for her many years of work to raise awareness about nuclear radiation and the safety of the oceans.(June 16, 2012).
- 2013 Pet Hero Award - Humanitarian of the Year by the Pet Philanthropy Circle for her strong advocacy for animals, environment and wildlife.
- 2018 FN Style Influencer of the Year along with daughters Alexa and Sailor.